2007 was a vintage year for The Proclaimers with the September release of their latest album 'Life With You' (W14/Universal) enjoying both critical acclaim and commercial success in the UK with sales exceeding Silver status. The Proclaimers then played their biggest ever UK/Ireland tour, performing to over 85,000 people at 45 dates. Earlier in 2007 Craig and Charlie teamed up with Peter Kay and Matt Lucas, as a new version of I'm Gonna be (500 Miles) spent three weeks at number one, raising over a million pounds for Comic Relief.

We will be announcing shortly April/May USA & Canada tour dates, meantime dates below are now confirmed in Europe for March, more gigs to be added.

The Proclaimers return to UK this week after completing a short Belgian tour and gigs in Germany and Holland which followed in the footsteps of their immensely successful 40 date UK & Ireland October/November tour. They are taking part in a Top Of The Pops Christmas day special being recorded this week for BBC 1 TV and Friday 14th sees them performing a short acoustic set at Clyde 1's Cash For Kids lunch.

4 more sell out shows in Scotland the following week and then The Proclaimers bring in the new year on 31st December at Stirling's Hogmanaywww.stirlinghogmanay.com

We are currently finalising live plans for 2008 and will be announcing dates very soon. Regretfully The Proclaimers will not make it down to Australia/New Zealand next year but will be doing dates across Europe in March and then April/May will see The Proclaimers on another tour of USA & Canada.

We have added loads of goodies to Proclaimers TV featuring Matt Lucas interview, BBC 1's This Week interview, Life With You & Whole Wide World videos, Life With You live and interesting visual takes on
S-O-R-R-Y and No One Left To Blame from the new album. Click here to visit Proclaimers TV

Friday 26th October

The Proclaimers are confirmed to perform on Saturday 8th December at The Prime Club, Cologne. www.primeclub.de

Craig, Charlie and band were thrilled to have Wreckless Eric join them on stage for a few recent gigs to perform on Whole Wide World.

Click images to view them larger

At the Cardiff show last week, Craig and Charlie were delighted to meet up again with superfan David Tennant.

Many congratulations to Stephen Greenhorn, James Brining and all involved at Dundee Rep Theatre on the Sunshine On Leith musical scooping 2 awards at the highly prestigious TMA Awards 2007. http://www.thestage.co.uk/

Dear friend and huge fan Matt Lucas interviewed Craig and Charlie last month about the new album and tour, here is a ten minute edit of that chat.click herehttp://www.youtube.com/

The first single 'Life With You' from the new album is fast emerging as a Proclaimers classic and the second single from the album is a Steve Evans remix of their cover of Wreckless Eric's 'Whole Wide World', released in the UK on 5th November. Here is the video for the track, directed by Ali Taylor.click here
http://www.youtube.com/

19th October

The Proclaimers are delighted to revisit Holland on current tour and will be playing Amsterdam Melkweg on 9th December.http://www.melkweg.nl

Tuesday 16th October

In between UK tour dates, Craig and Charlie will be popping in for an interview and premiere broadcast of video for forthcoming single 'Whole Wide World' (released in UK on 5th November) on BBC1 TV Breakfast show at 8.45am on Thursday 18th October.

Many thanks indeed to all who have come along to the UK dates so far this month, Craig, Charlie, Stevie, Garry John, Zac, Clive and all involved have been enjoying the shows and crowd reactions immensely. See the Gigs section for remaining dates. First few reviews in below.

The Proclaimers are delighted to confirm they will end the year in spectacular style, headlining Stirling's Hogmanay at Stirling Castle on 31st December.
Tickets go on sale from 10.00am on Monday 1st October, info at www.stirlinghogmanay.com

Wednesday 26th September

Tomorrow Thursday 27th sees Craig and Charlie in discussion on the political chat show This Week with Andrew Neil, Diane Abbott and Michale Portillo on BBC 1 TV at 11.35pm.

Contrastingly, Craig and Charlie can then be seen hosting The Top 50 Anthems on The Hits music channel (Sky, Virgin, Freeview) on Saturday 29th September at 8pm and Wednesday 3rd October at 11pm.

Wednesday 12th September
The Proclaimers will feature in interview and performance on The Simon Mayo Show, BBC Radio 5 Live at 2.45pm on Thursday 13th September.

Monday 10th SeptemberThe Glasgow Barrowlands December date which went on
sale this morning issold out.

Monday 10th SeptemberFollowing the Life With You album debuting as a new entry in the UK National Album Charts at a very healthy no 13, Craig and Charlie will be chatting tonight on BBC Radio 2's The Music Club With Simon Mayo at 11.30pm on Monday 10th September.

Sunday 9th September
The Proclaimers announce 4 final dates for the year,
tickets are on sale Monday 10th sept at 9 am.

The Proclaimers will be signing copies of their new
album 'Life With You' at Virgin Megastore, Buchanan
Street, Glasgow at 5pm on Thursday 6th September.

On Friday 7th September at 1pm, The Proclaimers will
do a short acoustic set then sign copies of the album
at HMV, Princes Street, Edinburgh.

Monday 3rd September

The Proclaimers 'Life With You' single & album

Apologies to those of you who tried in vain to
purchase a download of the single 'Life With You' via
the iTunes store, incredibly due to technical demons
at Apple, it failed to appear in the first 7 days of
release. It is finally now available at:

The new album CD 'Life With You' is now out from today
in UK/Ireland, we await to see how iTunes functions
this week when the album track downloads are due to go
live on Tuesday night. The album digital download is
currently available at..http://www.7digital.com/

The album is certainly getting immense and deserved
critical acclaim. Here is an example from this months
MOJO. (Click to view larger <<< )

Craig and Charlie give their track by track notes:

LIFE WITH YOU
Life With You is basically an old-fashioned Proclaimers love song. It’s simply talking about wanting to live your life with somebody, and it’s been transformed by Steve Evan’s arrangement.

IN RECOGNITION
This is about our overwhelming contempt for people on the left in this country who snipe against the royal family and then end up taking honours.

For people who believe in the monarchy (we’re don’t, we’re republicans) then that’s fair enough, we don’t have a problem with that. But we feel total contempt for people who are declare that they’re against the monarchy but then think it’s ok to take an honour in later life.

NEW RELIGION
This is really a story about our contempt for people’s obsessive behaviour on subjects like football, Starwars, or any kind of modern obsession which turns a pastime into an obsession and elevates it to a state of a religion

S-O-R-R-Y
S-O-R-R-Y is another one about the international situation. It’s really a song about the people – I’m talking mostly about the newspaper columnists - who were the cheerleaders for the war and the invasion of Iraq. Many people who write for newspapers have never been involved in any military action, and never will be, but seem to think that its alright to encourage us to send our daughters and sons into wars. And when it goes pear-shaped, like it has, they’re not even prepared to admit that they were wrong.

NO ONE LEFT TO BLAME
This is about people who find it difficult to understand why a certain amount of misfortune falls on them consistently. Hence they always seek to blame someone else for what’s going wrong in their life. The song is basically saying, “wake up there’s nobody else left blame, and a lot of the pain and the hurt that you feel is of your own making.”

HERE IT COMES AGAIN
This is a song about the blatant misogyny that has become glorified much more than ever before in music over the last ten or fifteen years. The song is about the negativity of hyping up gangsters to be role models. I don’t mind songs about any subject, but it seems that there’s a lot of them in the last few years, and sometimes it get monotonous to hear a constant steam of hymns to violence and blatant misogyny.

It seems that you can be as misogynistic as you want and any number of record companies will put your records out and nobody bats an eyelid.

BLOOD LYING ON SNOW
This is a lust song, about seeing a lady and just wanting to have some kind of relationship with her – not one that’s going to last – but something that might just last a few nights.

HARNESS PAIN
If you are creative you should use all the aspects of your life in your work, and you shouldn’t just use the optimistic side, you should use the heartbreak and hurt that everybody feels at certain periods of time. This is a song about harnessing that pain, and the fact that you should balance the optimistic stuff and not be afraid to be truthful.

THE LONG HAUL
This is a song about the avoidable disaster which has befallen America over the last few years over their involvement in Iraq. We’ve got people like John Reid saying that we could be fighting this so-called war on terrorism for 50 years, and we’ve got the Neocons in America talking about it like it’s some kind of crusade. It’s a very depressing thought that this crusade could be going on for decades more.

THE LOVER’S FACE
This is a story from the point of view of a woman who’s been involved in a relationship that’s completely consumed her life, it’s consumed everything she’s thought about and she’s been wiling to sacrifice anything for that relationship. The arrangement is somewhat country, somewhat RnB, which sits well with the songs.

WHOLE WIDE WORLD
It’s a Wreckless Eric song - I wish it was ours. It’s one of the records that you remember a lot from ’76 to ’78 period when New Wave reignited people’s passion in popular music.

We do the song live and it works. One of the great things is that Wreckless Eric himself has admitted that he’s found out that the Bahamas is not in the Caribbean!

CALENDAR ON THE WALL
This is a very simple song about not being too bothered about doing too much with your day. It’s really a song about not letting your day being dictated by worrying about time. It’s got a lazy arrangement as well, something that’s a wee bit reminiscent of Buddy Holly records, in terms of the feel of the song.

IF THERE’S A GOD
I think this is self-explanatory song. It’s about wondering that if there’s a God, why is there is so much hurt and pain?

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For those of you in the UK, Craig and Charlie appear
throughout 'The ONE Show' at 7pm on BBC1 TV on Tuesday
4th September.

Cheers,

Colin @ Procs HQ

Friday 31st August

Catch the Proclaimers on Tuesday 4th Sept in interview and an acoustic performance at 2.30pm on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show.

Then from 7 to 7.30 that night, on BBC1 TV 'The One Show'.

Thursday 30th August

The Proclaimers will be doing an acoustic session, Friday 31st August at 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland Tom Morton Show.

Sunday 2nd September finds Craig and Charlie being interviewed and performing on BBC Radio 2 Aled Jones Show which airs from 07.00am to 09.00am.

Then at 10.00am on BBC 1 TV The Heaven & Earth Show, in interview and full live band performance of 'Life With You'.

Friday 24th August

Proclaiming Greatness - 24 years after starting out, The Proclaimers are winning over a new generation, Rick Fulton speaks with Charlie.http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/

The CD Single features :
1. Life With You
2. Disgrace
(an exclusive track from the Rockfield recording sessions this year)
3. A Woman's Place (acoustic version also recorded at Rockfield)

The album 'Life With You' (W14/Universal) is released in UK/Ireland on 3d September.

13 tracks recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales this year with producer Steve Evans at the helm.Available as CD and as a limited edition 2CD set containing 7 live tracks recorded at Glasgow's Hogmanay 2003 and 3 acoustic songs recorded at Rockfield.

01 Life With You
02 In Recognition
03 New Religion
04 S-o-r-r-y
05 No One Left To Blame
06 Here It Comes Again
07 Blood Lying On Snow
08 Harness Pain
09 The Long Haul
10 The Lover's Face
11 Whole Wide World
12 Calendar On The Wall
13 If There's A God

BBC Radio 2 - 10.10am - KEN BRUCE SHOW
Craig and Charlie are to compete against each other in Pop Master,
the daily quiz as well as an interview.

Tuesday 24th July

Craig and Charlie special guests on The Chris Evans Show on Thursday 26th July

Following an unprecedented volume of positive texts to The Chris Evans Show, Jukebox Jury spot last night, where the single Life With You was proclaimed a nuclear hit following its first play on BBC Radio 2, Chris has invited Craig and Charlie to appear on the show for the entire 2 hours this Thursday 26th July, BBC Radio 2, 1700-1900
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW from 26th July

The Proclaimers are back on the road this weekend and they wish Ross McFarlane well on his next venture, he has been a fantastic drummer for The Proclaimers for many years and we welcome Clive Jenner on drums for the summer gigs.

The Proclaimers are confirmed to play on August 12 - The World Fleadh, Portlaoise, Irelandwww.theworldfleadh.com

The Proclaimers will be appearing on 29th July at Sundae on The Common, Clapham Common, London.
Ticket info atwww.benjerry.co.uk

22nd April
The Proclaimers are proud to be patrons of The Lighthouse Foundation who do fantastic work caring and supporting the children and families of drug and alcohol misusers. www.lighthouse-foundation.co.uk

It has been a frantic few weeks that saw The Proclaimers Comic Relief version of 'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)' featuring Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin (Peter Kay & Matt Lucas) top the UK Singles charts for three weeks. Following the launch on Red Nose Day (16 April) of the Peter Kay directed video, Craig and Charlie went on a bit of a media blitz, highlights included appearing on Sky Sports Soccer AM. BBC Radio 2 Jonathan Ross Show, BBC Radio 1 Chris Moyles Show, GMTV, BBC 2 Something For The Weekend, BBC 2 Graham Norton Show, ITV This Morning, BBC 5Live with Simon Mayo, Ch4 The Paul O'Grady Show and BBC Radio 4 Front Row. A 3 track acoustic performance on Virgin Radio can be seen in the News & media section on this page, alongside recent press features.

Craig and Charlie along with their band, Stevie Christie, Garry John Kane, Ross McFarlane, Zac Ware and producer Steve Evans now head off to record their seventh studio album. The album will be released via W14/Universal in the UK in September.
A major UK and Ireland tour in October and November follows, see dates below.

Following the massive anticipation surrounding Peter Kay’s new Comic Relief project, he’s produced and directed an exclusive performance '(I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles' by The Proclaimers, featuring Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin. The track will be made available for digital download (video and audio & ringtone immediately after it airs tonight on Comic Relief – The Big One.

The single, in aid of Comic Relief, will also be available on ECD single and DVD single from Monday 19th March on EMI.

In a never to be repeated collaboration, Phoenix Night’s Brian Potter and Little Britain’s Andy Pipkin actually add their vocal talents to those of cult Scot band The Proclaimers to deliver a hilarious and rousing version of the 80’s anthem.

In typical comic fashion, the hilarious sketch, aired tonight on BBC ONE won’t see Brian and Andy walking their 500 miles, they roll!

Peter Kay said: It’ll lift people up and hopefully do a lot of good in the process. It was great of The Proclaimers and Matt to help bring the idea to life”

Matt Lucas, who is a lifelong Proclaimers fan said:
“The Proclaimers are my absolute favourite band of all time. It was a great honour to be allowed to destroy one of their greatest songs.”

The Proclaimers said of their involvement:
"We are very honoured to be asked to participate in this years Red
Nose Day and the use of one of our songs for a cause as worthy as this makes us very happy."

The huge success of Peter Kay’s last Comic Relief single, ‘(Is this the way to) Amarillo’ for Red Nose Day 2005, spurred on his decision to create this new project and release this song, the hope is that it will raise even more money this time round!

The Proclaimers have always made a point of not just playing the major cities but playing halls across the length and breadth of Scotland. Having visited 40 different cities/towns over the years they are delighted to make that 44 with first time shows in 4 more this June.

Tickets on sale from Monday 19th March – 0870 903 3444 www.ticketweb.co.uk
Tickets available in person from all local outlets

The Proclaimers last live appearance in Scotland was main stage at T In The Park 2006, these dates kick of a year long World tour that will see the band playing at festivals over the summer (confirmed for Hebridean Festival on July 13 and V Festival 2007 on August 18 & 19) followed by their biggest ever UK & Ireland tour in October & November. 2008 then sees The Proclaimers touring Australasia, USA & Canada. Craig & Charlie and band will be recording their seventh studio album in the spring, for release in September of this year.

We are looking forward to a particularly exciting year ahead and in forthcoming months, will be announcing news on a new Proclaimers album and tour dates.
Craig and Charlie are finishing off a batch of new songs which they will record in the Spring along with the band, Ross, Stevie, Garry John and Zac.

There will be a few select live appearances over the summer. The new album will be released in the Autumn and a UK & Ireland tour follows in October and November. We would then hope to see The Proclaimers live in Australasia, USA & Canada early in 2008.

Dundee Rep Theatre’s plans to premiere a new Scottish musical based around the songs of The Proclaimers are now confirmed. SUNSHINE ON LEITH has been written by Stephen Greenhorn and will be performed by members of Dundee Rep’s Ensemble under the direction of James Brining. The musical, SUNSHINE ON LEITH also boasts a live nine piece band and will open in Dundee in April 2007 and will then tour to Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow. Rumours of the show have already received a great deal of attention from both the public and the press. Tickets are already on sale in Dundee and Glasgow with tickets due to go on sale in Aberdeen on Feb 6 and in Edinburgh on Jan 15 2007.

SUNSHINE ON LEITH focuses on two Scottish men who leave the army and return home to Leith and their families. Three very different love stories are intertwined creating a funny, poignant and hugely entertaining show. SUNSHINE ON LEITH will have a cast of 15 performers including the award-winning Dundee Rep Ensemble - Scotland’s only full-time company of actors. The band also help bring to life 21 much loved Proclaimers songs including Letter from America, I’m on My Way and I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles). SUNSHINE ON LEITH uses the music of The Proclaimers to tell this engrossing tale about everyday life in Scotland in a similar way to Mamma Mia’s use of Abba’s songs – it will not be about the Fife born twins.

The show coincides with the 20th anniversary of The Proclaimer’s first ever album – This is the Story. Dundee Rep Theatre is already well known for staging successful musical productions and already has hits like Gypsy, Flora the Red Menace and Cabaret. Stephen Greenhorn, who has just completed an episode of Dr Who, also wrote TV’s River City and Glasgow Kiss and the stage play Passing Places.

“The Proclaimers’ songs are rooted in Scottish experiences and seem to belong to the people of Scotland. We have to do them justice and put them in a context they deserve that engages the audience and gives them a great night out” comments James Brining.

Craig and Charlie say they are “surprised and very happy that a theatre company of the quality of Dundee Rep with its fantastic history, are doing a play featuring our music”.

His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen – ON SALE FROM FEB 6
Tues 29 May to Saturday 2 June
Tues to Thurs 7.30pm, Fri and Sat 5pm and 8.30pm Tickets
£10.50 to £23.50 (bkg fee) Friends of APA: £4 off on opening night, £2 off all other performances Groups: £2 off plus one free ticket with every 15 purchased Concessions: £2 off
School Groups 10+: £7.50 plus one adult free for every 10 purchased Standby Tickets: 40 tickets at £5 on day of show for concession holders
(no other discounts apply, 2 per booking, subject to availability)
All concessions exclude Balcony
Bookings: 01224 641122 or www.boxofficeaberdeen.com
Group Bookings: groups@aberdeenperformingarts.com